verb (used with object) 1. to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing. 2. to pursue with force, hostility, etc., in order to capture (often followed by down): They hunted him down and hanged him. 3. to search for; seek; endeavor to obtain or find (often followed by up or out): to hunt up the most promising candidates for the position. 4. to search (a place) thoroughly. 5. to scour (an area) in pursuit of game. 6. to use or direct (a horse, hound, etc.) in chasing game. 7. Change Ringing. to alter the place of (a bell) in a hunt.verb (used without object) 8. to engage in the pursuit, capture, or killing of wild animals for food or in sport. 9. to make a search or quest (often followed by for or after). 10. Change Ringing. to alter the place of a bell in its set according to certain rules.noun 11. an act or practice of hunting game or other wild animals. 12. a search; a seeking or endeavor to find. 13. a pursuit. 14. a group of persons associated for the purpose of hunting; an association of . 15. an area hunted over. 16. Change Ringing. a regularly varying order of permutations in the ringing of a group of from five to twelve bells. /ˈhʌntɪd/adjective 1. harassed and worn: he has a hunted look /hʌnt/verb 1. to seek out and kill or capture (game or wild animals) for food or sport 2. (intransitive) often foll by for. to look (for); search (for): to hunt for a book, to hunt up a friend 3. (transitive) to use (hounds, horses, etc) in the pursuit of wild animals, game, etc: to hunt a pack of hounds 4. (transitive) to search or draw (country) to hunt wild animals, game, etc: to hunt the parkland 5. (transitive) often foll by down. to track or chase diligently, esp so as to capture: to hunt down a criminal 6. (transitive; usually passive) to persecute; hound 7. (intransitive) (of a gauge indicator, engine speed, etc) to oscillate about a mean value or position 8. (intransitive) (of an aircraft, rocket, etc) to oscillate about a flight pathnoun 9. the act or an instance of hunting 10. chase or search, esp of animals or game 11. the area of a hunt 12. a party or institution organized for the pursuit of wild animals or game, esp for sport 13. the participants in or members of such a party or institution 14. (informal) in the hunt, having a chance of success: that result keeps us in the hunt See also hunt down, hunt up /hʌnt/noun 1. Henry, known as Orator Hunt. 1773–1835, British radical, who led the mass meeting that ended in the Peterloo Massacre (1819) 2. (William) Holman. 1827–1910, British painter; a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848) 3. James. 1947–93, British motor-racing driver: world champion 1976 4. (Henry Cecil) John, Baron. 1910–98, British army officer and mountaineer. He planned and led the expedition that first climbed Mount Everest (1953) 5. (James Henry) Leigh (liː). 1784–1859, British poet and essayist: a founder of The Examiner (1808) in which he promoted the work of Keats and Shelley v.

General sense of “search diligently” (for anything) is first recorded c.1200. Related: Hunted; hunting. Happy hunting-grounds “Native American afterlife paradise” is from “Last of the Mohicans” (1826). n.

early 12c., from hunt (v.). Meaning “body of persons associated for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds” is first recorded 1570s. see:

[huhn-ter] /ˈhʌn tər/ noun 1. a person who game or other wild animals for food or in sport. 2. a person who searches for or seeks something: a fortune hunter. 3. a horse specially trained for quietness, stamina, and jumping ability in . 4. an animal, as a dog, trained to game. 5. (initial capital […]

[huhn-ter-gath -er-er] /ˈhʌn tərˈgæð ər ər/ noun, Anthropology. 1. a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild. adjective 1. (of a society, lifestyle, etc) surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence noun 2. a member of such a society

[huhn-ter-kil-er] /ˈhʌn tərˈkɪl ər/ adjective 1. of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines. adjective 1. denoting a type of naval vessel, esp a submarine, designed and equipped to pursue and destroy enemy craft

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